John de la Fontaine, born about 1500, in the province of Maine, near the borders of
Normandy, was murdered at his home in the city of Le Maus, 1563. Held a commission in the
household of Francis I, in what was called "Les Ordonnances du Roi." Name of
wife and date of marriage unknown. His wife was also murdered in 1563 on account of
their religion. Four children.

name unknown; born about 1545.

James; born about 1548.

Abraham; born about 1551.

name unknown; born about 1554.

James de la Fontaine, born about 1548, probably at Le Maus, died 1633 leaving his
family 9000 livres, engaged in commerce. Name of wife and date of marriage unknown. Had
several children but only three lived to be grown, two daughters and one son. Probably
spent most of his life at Rochelle.

daughter, unknown.

daughter, unknown.

James; born at Rochelle in 1603.

James Fontaine, born 1603, at Rochelle, Scholar, teacher and minister, married 1st
to Miss Thompson at London, England, 1628, was pastor of the United Churches of Vaux and
Royan. 6 children by his first wife.

Caption: "Jacques de la Fontaine, Huguenot of
Rochelle, France, married Mlle. Chaillon of Pons in Santoigne. Born 1603 - Died
1666.

Jane; married Mr. LHommeau.

Judith; married Mr. Guiennot.

James; minister, pastor Archiac, in Saintonge.

Elizabeth; married Mr. Sautreau.

Peter; minister, assisted and later succeeded his father.

Francis; died young.

Married secondly to Marie Chaillon, in 1641, she was from the neighborhood of Pons, in
Saintonge, where here father possessed considerable property and resided at a country
place named Rue au Roy. They purchased and resided at the estate of Jenouille and adjacent
manor of Jaffe, by this wife he had five children.

Susan; married Stephen Gachot.

Peter; minister at Saintonge and Salles.

Mary; married Peter Forestier.

Ann; married Leon Testard Sieru des Meslars.

James; born Apr 7. 1658

James Fontaine, born at Jenouille, April 7, 1658, educated for the ministry, inherited
estate of his father, served in prison for the cause of Protestantism. Escaped from France
on Nov. 30, 1685, just after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, landed Barnstaple,
England on Dec. 1, 1685. He took his fiance, Anne Boursiquot, her sister Elizabeth and
Janette Forestier, his niece.

"James Fontaine, the 'Fighting Huguenot.'
[Born in Santiogne, France, April 7, 1658. Escaped during the persecution to
England. Father of James and Peter Fontaine, of Virginia.]" (From file of Irene
Louise Scott Parks; her source?)

James Fontaine

Anne Boursiquot

His bold escape on Nov. 30 1685 included several near brushes
with disaster. Married Feb. 8, 1686 at the Perish Church Barnstaple, England. Resided at
various places in England and engaged himself in various occupations, including preaching,
teaching, shop-keeping, and manufacturing. Moved to Cork in 1694, preached and taught. In
1699 moved to Bear Haven Ireland where he engaged in fishing and farming and later
maintained a Fort. Was captured and held for ransom by French Privateers. Later moved to
Dublin where he resided until his death. In every undertaking he seemed to do well and
gain the highest esteem, having been appointed to several important offices in Ireland.
Eight children.

James; born 1686, arrived in Virginia in Oct. 1717, settled at Christianne, on Meherrin
River on at tract of land John had obtained. Several children, names not given.

Aaron; born 1688, died before reaching manhood.

Mary Anne; born 1690, died 1755 in Virginia, married in 1716 in Dublin, Ireland, Matthew
Maury of Castel Mauron, Gascony, came to Virginia in 1718.

Moses; born 1694?, studied for ministry but on account of his timidity did not feel like
he could be successful at it. Later took up engraving and was very successful; died in
London.

Elizabeth; born 1701.

Peter (1694 - 1757) ; came to Virginia in 1716. Rector Westover Parish on James
River for 40 years.

John; born 1693?, died in London. He was a solider. May 28, 1715, John landed in
Virginia. His trip was for the purpose of seeing if it was a suitable place for his
brothers. He was a member of Col. Spotswoods party over the Appalachians from Aug.
20, 1716  Sep. 17, 1716. Knight of Golden Horseshoe.

Francis; born 1697, came to Virginia, and was a professor at W&M College and Rector
of York-Hampton Parish.

Rev. Peter Fontaine (1694 - 1757) was born at Taunton, in England, was a brother of
Mary Anne Maury, emigrated to Virginia in 1716, and was minister of Westover Parish for
many years until his death in 1757.

Caption: "The Rev. Peter Fontaine, son
of James Fontaine, graduated from Dublin University in 1716 and migrated to
Virginia." Another Caption: "The Rev. Peter Fontaine, [Of Westover,
Parish, Virginia - Colonial Period - 1750 - Chaplain to Col. William Evelyn Byrd.]"

Married first Elizabeth Fourreau and had two children:

Mary Ann, b 1718; married Isaac Winston.

Peter; b 1720 m. E. Winston. Was a surveyor in Halifax, Virginia. Had three sons,
John, William and James. William was a Colonel in the Continental Army; James was a major
in the Kentucky volunteers and was killed while endeavoring to make a brave escape after
being ambushed by Indians after the Revolutionary war.

Married secondly to Elizabeth Wade, of Virginia, by her he had six children. Died
July 1757.

Moses; born about 1742; m Ballard; lawyer; went to England to study and remained
there.

Sarah; born about 1744.

Elizabeth; born about 1747; m William Mills

Joseph; born about 1748.

Aaron; b 1753; d 1823; to Louisville 1798.

Abraham; born about 1756.

Col. Aaron Fontaine, born November 30, 1753, Charles City County, Virginia, died
Louisville, KY in April 1823. Was reared by his sister Mrs. Isaac Winston. Married first
in 1773 to Barbara Terrell, born 1756 died 1796. She was granddaughter of Col.
William Overton of Glencaim, Hanover, Co., Virginia, and traces her lineage to the Royal
house of Stuart. Came to Kentucky and settled at Harrods Creek, Jefferson County, 1798.
Twelve children.

Col. Aaron Fontaine "He became a planter in Louisa county and
married Barbara Terrill, the daughter of Anne and Richmond Terrill and granddaughter of
William Overton, of Glencairn. Mrs. Aaron Fontaine's great-grandmother .... was the
sister of the young Duke of Monmouth (in England). In the Stuart gallery in London,
near the portraits of ... Charles II and .... Nell Gwynne, are paintings of ... Mary
Waters and her brother.
"Aaron Fontaine sold his plantation in Virginia and came to Kentucky
with his family at the beginning of the century. His wife, who was in frail health,
did not survive the journey, but a family of twelve children and a son-in-law, Fortunatus
Cosby, who had married the writer's ancestress, Mary Anne Fontaine, made the long
and perilous trip in safety and settled in the village of Louisville. Capt. Fontaine
- as he was called - purchased a farm on the banks of the Ohio and established
"Fountaine's Ferry." The site of the old homestead is now - a hundred
years later - a pleasure resort and park Capt Fontaine took for his second wife Mrs.
Elizabeth Whiting Thruston. .... " Charles D. Jacob, a
prominent resident of Louisville, is a descendent. A Louisville park is named after
him. Another park, Baxter Square, was donated to Louisville by Judge Fortunatus
Cosby, another descendant. .... from a newspaper clipping
"Century of Old Fontaine Estate" from 1914 by Mary Lytle Byers. ... source:
Courier Journal?...

Peter; born 1774; m Catherine Taylor

James Terrell; born 11/19/1776; m Deborah Hobbs

Mary Anne; born 1778, m Fortunatus Cosby in Virginia.

Elizabeth; born 1780; d 1807; m Edmund Bullock of Fayette County, Ky., on May 19, 1799.

Matilda; born 1782; m on Feb. 12, 1800 to Thomas Prather.

Martha (Patsy Minor?); born 1785; m Alexander Pope.

Sarah; born 1787; m April 16, 1810, to G.R.C. Floyd.

Maria; born 1789; m June 24, 1810 to Sterling Grimes of Georgia.

America; born 1791; m on Jan. 16, 1809 to W.S. Vernon.

William Maury; born 1793.

Barbara Carr; born 1794, Cosby.

Ann Overton; born 1796; m June 16, 1811 to J.T. Jacobs.

Married secondly in 1803 to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Thurston in Louisville, KY. (Widow of
Col. John Thurston.)

Alexander Madison Fontaine b 1803

Henry Whiting Fontaine b 1807

Emeline Dillon Fontaine b 1809

Aaron Benjamin Fontaine b 1811

James Terrell Fontaine, born 11/19/1776 in Virginia. Married March 4,
1799 to Deborah Hobbs (b. 1776, d. 1867) in Shelby County Kentucky on March 31. The Hobbs
family came from Maryland. Died 1840, 11 children. James T. Fontaine is buried in Fontaine cemetery in Brandenburg Ky.
Deborah Hobbs pictured at right. Deborah Hobbs is also buried in Fontaine cemetery.

William Maury Fontaine, born May 6, 1813, died September 3, 1864. Married June 5th
1844 to Martha Elizabeth Foushee (b. Feb. 20, 1830, d. June 30, 1887) in Meade County KY.
8 children. Wm. M. Fontaine is buried in the Fontaine
cemetery in Brandenburg Ky.

Back of photograph at right: "Martha
Fontaine. Mrs. M.E. Fontaine March 25th 1886. She out lived Wm Maury by 24
years. Married Wm Maury when she was 15. Wm Maury was 33."

Caption on photograph at right: "William Maury Fontaine son of James Terrill and
Deborah Hobbs Fontaine Born 1816 in Louisville, Ky.

Charles Beauregard Fontaine, born April 19, 1859, Meade County Kentucky, died March
12, 1924, Fort Smith Arkansas. Married Jan. 7 1886 to Irene Buckner Stith (b. 09/21/1867
d. 05/22/1915), daughter of T.J. Stith of Meade County Kentucky. Married at Willard Hotel
(Louisville, Kentucky). Charles, at this time, was Commonwealth Attorney of Meade County,
KY. Left Kentucky early fall of 1887 and went to Fort Smith Arkansas.

1. Memoirs of a Huguenot Family: Translated and compiled
from the original autobiography of the Rev. James Fontaine, and other family
manuscripts; comprising an original journal of travels in Virginia, New-York, etc., in
1715 and 1716. by Ann Maury Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company 1967. Reprint
of the Expanded Edition, New York, 1853. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number
67-22179. Excerpt from the time in Cork Ireland HERE.

3. A TALE OF THE HUGUENOTS, (by James Fontaine)
OR MEMOIRS OF A FRENCH REFUGEE FAMILY, TRANSLATED AND COMPILED FROM THE ORINGINAL
MANUSCRIPTS OF JAMES FONTAINE, BY ONE OF HIS DESCENDANTS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY F.L.
HAWKES, D. D., Showing to the generations to come the praises of the Lord, and his
strength, that they should make them known to their children. That they might set
their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.--Psalm 78.,
NEW YORK: JOHN S. TAYLOR,
THEOLOGICAL AND SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOKSELLER, Corner of Park Row and Spruce Street. .......
1838.